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ERS Vision Live

Released on 20.01.2026

Updated management of pulmonary embolism

Overview

Taking place on 19 January, this instalment featured an expert panel discussing updated management of pulmonary embolism.

risk classification;
advanced reperfusion therapies - ongoing trials;
long-term follow-up/long-term sequela/duration of anticoagulation.

Speakers

Prof. David Jiménez Castro (Co-chair)

David is Professor of Medicine at the University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, and Chief of the Venous Thromboembolism Programme at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid.
He serves as Chief of the Respiratory Department of Ramon y Cajal Hospital.
Dr Jiménez's interests include venous thromboembolism, and clinical care, education and research for patients with pulmonary embolism (PE).
He is past President of the Vascular Sections of both the Spanish Society of Respiratory Medicine (SEPAR) and the Madrid Society of Respiratory Medicine (NEUMOMADRID), and past President of the Pulmonary Embolism Group of the European Respiratory Society.

Prof. Irene Lang (Co-chair)

Irene is a clinical cardiologist and Professor of Vascular Biology at the Medical University of Vienna.
She has been nominated as one of the WMA-Caring Physicians of the World in 2005.
She directs an out-patient clinic for pulmonary vascular diseases and is an active interventional and structural cardiologist.
She also leads basic research on the biology of vascular occlusions, with a special focus on chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
Prof. Lang is a Member of the Austrian and European societies of cardiology, member of senate of the Medical University of Vienna and Editor for the pulmonary vascular section at the European Heart Journal, of Pulmonary Circulation, and Atherosclerosis.

Dr Cecelia Becattini

Cecilia Becattini is Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Perugia, Italy and Director of the Acute Care-Stroke Unit Department at the Azienda Ospedaliera of Perugia.
She is involved in national and international research projects in the field of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of venous thromboembolism and of cardioembolic events in patients with atrial fibrillation.
She is author of scientific publications in international peer reviewed journals.

Prof. Olivier Sanchez

Olivier is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Paris Cité University and is head of the Department of Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine at the European Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris.
His research interests are focussed on pulmonary circulation and mainly on acute and chronic thromboembolic disease.
Olivier is a member of the French INvestigation Network On Venous ThromboEmbolism (INNOVTE), a labelised F-CRIN network promoting translational clinical research and European clinical studies on venous thromboembolism.
He is also a member of the European Respiratory Society. He is the coordinating investigator of the ongoing PEITHO-3 study.

Prof. Francis Couturaud

Francis is a Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Brest University and Head of Department of Respiratory Medicine at Brest University Hospital Center in France.
He is the director of the research unit INSERM and Study Group of Thrombosis of Occidental Brittany dedicated to clinical research and basic science in venous thromboembolism.
He is the director of the French network INvestigation Network On Venous Thrombo-Embolism (INNOVTE) labellised F-CRIN network promoting translational clinical research and European clinical studies on venous thromboembolism.
Francis is involved in clinical research on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, epidemiology and treatment of venous thromboembolism.

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